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title: "Taking Risks: A Jewish Youth in the Soviet Partisans and His Unlikely Life in California"
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# Taking Risks: A Jewish Youth in the Soviet Partisans and His Unlikely Life in California

**Brand:** joseph pell
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- **What is this?** Taking Risks: A Jewish Youth in the Soviet Partisans and His Unlikely Life in California by joseph pell
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Great book.
  

*by S***K on Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2017*

I bump into Joseph Pell once or twice a week in the office building where my law firm rents its space, just down the hall from his Pell Developments  office space.  We had no idea who he was or what his background was before casually getting to know him.  He's a humble, unassuming and good natured man for all he's done and endured, but  astute, and up to speed on everything.  He'll tell you exactly what he thinks about any topic if you ask him.  Even if he senses you're not going to like it.This book is astoundingly good.  Not just for the riveting narrative that starts with him as a youth, dashing out to the barn to hide as the SS rounds up every single one of his family and marches them off to be shot then and there.  His description of rural, pre-war Poland, growing up as the Kosher butcher's son, in a small-town, Jewish community (side by side with Polish and Ukrainian communities) is rich with detail.  A slice of life both multifaceted and compelling, given the reader's knowledge generally of what is coming.  He explains the butcher's work and experience that formed him, and he brings to life the family members he lost, flaws and all.  Throughout, his vision is unflinching and unfiltered.  I suppose it had to be.  He describes how families and then individuals had to make choice after choice, where either choice could prove fatal,  His success in California seems not all improbable,  His surviving WWII as a young Jew in Poland - that was improbable.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Too little is written or known of the Jeeish Resistance ...
  

*by J***T on Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2017*

Too little is written or known of the Jewish Resistance and post liberation jewish life in eastern Europe.  This fascinating take describes in riveting detail that life and the courage  and luck it can take to survive and survive well.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Five Stars
  

*by U***R on Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2017*

True story of a fabulous man.

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